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* ___ * bermuda recorder gives a meal published bi-weekly price 6d wednesdays ia saturdays man-op } mu zs volume xxxvm hamilton bermuda wednesday february 14 196 no 54 memorandum sets out views of business community on ammmmmwmm^t^^^m^w~adl^^maaaa^am h s^i wf r "^^ wl u ' a^bfa mmw^mr ww^wra w â– w\g gm rw mm ?**. 7i â– t g-7 -^ z^g.7 pl ! . ' â– mr mmmmmw^ml ? 'â– r ~^ mmtmmm\'':m.m\.a^a-'.t Â»-!___â– ' _-"^ w^.'-^z-^'^'^z'z a â– ww aa hgla â€¢ m^aamaw ______ _______' 1 r jf "*--â€¢ **Â»*Â£.^ r *- â€” j k â– â– j lm - â– â– ' â– â– â– â– :;- ja*f mw mj mmame_mt___________m mm â– ^ l .â– -^^^ . j â– â– h wgi^^a t___?a^gg b^hi waaw kwus bvlai b^^^ib p^^ft^h ball 1 l * * ' > jar = *> - - p^r^li v â– ~ â– ~, w m]mmm : -" aÂ«lmi jj ?;, .. . . fjgf faff ( jt^aÂ«*.-Â«^ij--l-.^jjl p ., "^^..- g<j>r,4 â– â€” . :.-.... .â€ž._ â– ... ... . :,... ..â€ž â– -â– ; â– .. ..__â– _.-â– â– Â»â– :â– :. â– Â»:, l ..... six â€ž ',.,." ~ foreign help issue . v recommendations submitted 1 to immigration board employ skilled efficient local personnel it lias b en and continues to be the desire and the hope of the business com munity that with the passag of time and the development of abilities by bermudians a greater and greater number of jobs in all categories will be fiilled by bermudians ii has been and will continue to be the desire of the business community to take every op portunity consistent with eco nomic realities to encourage the training of bermudians to fill increasingly responsible po sitions in the community fhe colony's three major business organizations â€” tho bermuda employers council the chamber of commerce end the hotel association yesterday moved iiitd the current controversy over the heavy infiltration ol foreign labour into bermuda with a memorandum yesterday stating their side of the memorandum was pre pared as long a^o as last august 11th and submitted to the boanl of immigration it was tht result of a meeting of the board which representa tives of the three bodies at tended in july bermuda's second li7e boy team were pictured above fter their enrollment at christ church devonshire on sunday seated are the leaders from left to right : miss wilma steede mr david pitt mrs helena brice leader in charge ; mr ray mond charles and mr cecil djowns leader of the 1st life boys at st paul's church paget enrolling the 24 boys was the rev murray gawne rector ef the church major difference between the boys team and scout groups is the emphasis placed on christian training â€” photo by ed kelly age of skills and recommends that a commission be appoint the issue ed to survey the labour situa adequately trained local tion with a view to providing people in all categories through an adequate pro gramme of training and faci lities for training this is viewed by the busi ness community as just plain common sense it is part and parcel of a long-range view looking toward the healthy growth and development of bermuda as a community british-american gallan^h of triol cites efforts founder's day tribute we feel that this memo randum should now be releas ed to the public,"mr john plowman president of the chamber of commerce told the press he said he was speaking for himself the hon w l tucker viee-p!resident of the employers council and the hon a d spurling president of the hotel assoea tion mr plowman did not know what action the board had taken on their recommen dations parliamentary group leaders named colony's 2,000 scouts and guides to wear uniforms to school feb 22 text of the memorandum follows : the changing picture dear sir bermuda like other de veloped areas of the world has changed radically over the past two decades as in other parts of the world the need increasingly is for generally highly trained and technically highly trained personnel to fill an increasing number of jobs in a number of areas in the production areas in the service areas in the trade areas and in government public attention to the heroism ot two or three per sons who helped rescue two irom the flaming cycle wreck age which took two lives on the main st david's island road last thursday night was called by mr c v burch in the house of assembly on monday this memorandum is jointly presented for " con sideration of the policy com mittee of the board of immi gration from the bermuda employers council the ber muda chamber of commerce and the bermuda hotel asso ciation the memorandum ia the outcome of a meeting of the board of immigration held july 8 1961 to which repre sentatives of the board and representatives of the employ ers council the chamber of commerce and the hotel as sociation were invited and at which a number of questions raised by the board were dis cussed at that time delegates to the second british-american parsiamen tary conference which opens in bermuda next wednesday will arrive here the day before the speaker of the house of assembly sir john cox re vealed on monday bermuda's 2,000 boy scouts and girl guides who tradition ally observe the birthday of their founder lord baden powell with thinking day ceremonies will give added impact to the occasion this year by wearing their uniforms to school cr work on february 22 this was announced today at a press conference called by mr john fountain island scout commissioner and mrs dudley butterfield girl guide commissioner they pointed out that the founder's birth day is a big day for scouts and guides the world over permission for the youths to wear their uniforms to school had been granted by the di rector of education mr d j williams by communicating with them in one way or another the memorandum takes notes of the changing pieture of bermuda the present short sir john said the british de legation will be led by lord hailsham while senator john j sparkman democrat of alabama heads the american group each delegation com prises six members speaking on the motion for adjournment he said that most persons were no doubt aware of the tragic accident that had oceured but he won dered if the proper authori ties had brought to their at tention the gallantrj r and fore sight of the persous who were responsible for saving two lives chief guide in mexico lord baden - powell was born in london february 22 1857 by co-incidence february 22 is also the date of his wife's birth lady olave ba den-powell is the world chief guide and according to mrs butterfield she is at present in mexico attending a world guide conference the hiring of people to fill the specific needs must pre suppose training of those peo pie to fill those needs it must presuppose qualifications it must presuppose an attitude of willingness on the part of those seeking jobs to qualify themselves to fill the jobs it must presuppose a willingness to accept responsibilities and a conscientiousness of attitude one cop equal to ten sergeants and two inspectors canada was expected at one point to send a delegation as it did for the conference last february but so far no continuation has come from ottawa a proposal by the commis sioner of police which will have the effect of sacrificing one constable provided for in the force so that funds saved from his salary could be used to allow the promotion of two sergeants to inspectors and ten constables to sergeants was approved by the house on monday based upon minutes of thj july 8th meeting the board stated that while it did not particularly want to restrict people coming in for employ ment . . . the board feels that the business community must take a more liberal attitude toward giving job opportuni ties to bermudians in order that the board would be able to cut down to some extent the employment of non-bermu dians it was also stated that the board felt that the busi ness community should not only provide more job oppor tunities for bermudians but also more opportunities for advancement and more oppor tunities for the coloured ber others making up the brit ish party are the earl of dun dee from the house of lords and house of commons mem bers the rt hon hugh gaitskell labour party lead he said he was referring to the efforts of mr daltou stovell jjr burnell jones and an american service couple mr and mrs james rubin chak who lived near the scene of the accident in addition district think ing day church parades will be held on february 25 ser vices will be held at st pe ter's church at 11 a.m for tha eastern district 4 p.m at st john's church for pembroke devonshire district 4 p.m at st mary's church for wÂ»r wick-paget the western dis trict service will be announced later lady gascoigne will at tend the service at st john's bermuda is represented at the conference by its interna tional commissioner dr mar jorie hallett who has the dis tinction of being a member of the western hemisphere sub committee of the world asso ciation of guides and scouts she left the colony last wed nesday for the conference and is due to return sunday next continued on page 2 speaker apologizes for late start continued on page 6 they risked their lives so to speak to save these young men mr burch declared adding i feel that deeds of this kind should not go un noticed members stamped their feet in approval of the assemdlyman's remarks mr e h barnes who did not vote against the plan re marked it seemed as if the colony is going to have a police force of all officers and no constables something mr s s toddings said was a chinese army members in charge of the matter contained in a mes sage from the governor was mr c vail zuill chairman of the civil service committee the com..iittee he said sup ported t h e commissioner's iew that the rearrangement of the for e would give more chances for promotion from the ranks completes tv production course the boy scout movement was founded in 1908 it now has a world-wide membership of nearly nine million which mr fountain said certainly the speaker of the house of assembly who never fails to start regular sessions of the house promptly at 2 p.m was forced to apologize to mem bers on monday for getting things underway a few min utes late traditionally scouts and guides are encouraged to think of others in the movement on founder's day the collision and resulting fire took the lives of mr arthur burrows of st george's and mr gwyn smith of bailey's bay surviving with serious injuries in hos mr wendell barry lyn tucker recently graduated from the rca television pro duction and operators course in new york continued on page 6 mudians reason for the late start he explained wan the fact the clock whidh 1 am usually guided by did not strike the sessions house clock seeming ly was registering the correct time but why it missed strik ing at 2 p.m has not been ex plained continued on page 6 they're stripped the board said that it was concerned with impressing on the business community the importance of training local people to fill these jobs which are at present being given to non-bermudians prior to his leaving for rca he worked oh the produc tion staff of zbm tv cadets too young for full police powers zz - __\ ww ' j^u .â€¢ t^aamm mamt â– ^^â„¢Â»'_ y a&^_g^wi . a_c *^ aa i .' '..{ jjf'^t^ms&^^dm^m . ama % a * * â– am little 8 to talk feb 26 but however the committee didnot go along with his re commendation that a new post for a supernumerary chief in spector tor training should be created the house supported the committee on the point and rejected the request a memorandum from commissioner g h robins noted that the present autho r i s e d establishment of all ranks in the police force is 274 in this memorandum the bermuda employers council the chamber of commerce and the hotel association wish to state their views on these matters i caught up in the proposed re-arrangement of the police force which the house of assembly approved on mon day was the police cadet force mr g h robins com missioner of police stated as follows about the cadets i consider that the cadets should be outside the estab lishment of the force and that a maximum establishment of 6 should be approved and these should be regarded as poten tial recruits to fill vacancies in the establishment bridgetown bar feb 12 â€” a coherence of the pre mier of barbados mr errol barrow atid tlte chief minis tcrs of the windward and lee ward islands will be convened in barbados opening on mon day february sfl the purpose is to establish a new federation consisting of barbados antigua dominica grenada st vincent st lu cia st kitts montserrat and possibly the turks and caicos islands and cayman islands speakers at tomorrows labour meeting the business community wants to hire the jfa^inwitn number of bermudians at present cadets are in eluded in the establishment of the force are given the same powers responsibilities and protection as trained con stables but because of their age and lack of training should never have these re sponsibilities there are at present 4 cadets but it may well be that once local recruiting and training gets under way there may for many parts of the year be no cadets while at others there may be as many an g this should be a float ing figure outside the estab lishment i request approval for this in principle if ap proved in principle i will then submit a properly con sidered scheme for the recruit ing and training of cadets to gether with the financial im plications first and foremost we should like to emphasize our desire to hire local people whenever possible the meet ing of july 8th seemed to re flect an attitude on the part of some members of the board that there was a basic prefer ence for imported help noth ing could be farther from the truth tomorrow the third in a series of labour meetings will take place at alexan drina hall under the chairmanship of mr al harris speakers will be lt colonel j c ast wood m.c.p chairman of the board of immigration and mr martin wilson president general of the bermuda in dustrial union the smaller the force he point i .- ed out the greater the danger a m i j ii f stagnation and boredom if there is little incentive to promotion to give the neces sary this announcement was made here yesterday after noon mr wendell b l tucker cadets should be regarded as a means of catching young men on leaving school imbu ing them with a sense of ser vice to the community and police work thus reducing the period of training which they will require when they reach the age of entry into the since completing his course he has rejoined the staff sir grantley adams fed eral prime minister left by plane sunday accompanied by federal m.p.s mr " gilmore rocheford and mr deightou ward to attend a special meeting of the west indian federal labour party in port of-spain for domestic and economic reasons there should always be possibilities for promotion open to the outstanding and efficient man at present i believe the propsect to be in adequate th commissioner m held mr tucker was educated in bermuda at ord road school and sandy's secondary school he is the youngest son of mr and mrs leroy s tucker tucklyn villa ord road paget west it is of course known to the board that the employ ment of staff from abroad is fraught with all types of dif ficulties and expense henca there is every inducement to growing discontent with the competition local labour is getting from imported help partioulanly in the hotel in dustry led to the start of the meetings by mr harris ! â€¢ force try pre-sifted purity flour today

* ___ * bermuda recorder gives a meal published bi-weekly price 6d wednesdays ia saturdays man-op } mu zs volume xxxvm hamilton bermuda wednesday february 14 196 no 54 memorandum sets out views of business community on ammmmmwmm^t^^^m^w~adl^^maaaa^am h s^i wf r "^^ wl u ' a^bfa mmw^mr ww^wra w â– w\g gm rw mm ?**. 7i â– t g-7 -^ z^g.7 pl ! . ' â– mr mmmmmw^ml ? 'â– r ~^ mmtmmm\'':m.m\.a^a-'.t Â»-!___â– ' _-"^ w^.'-^z-^'^'^z'z a â– ww aa hgla â€¢ m^aamaw ______ _______' 1 r jf "*--â€¢ **Â»*Â£.^ r *- â€” j k â– â– j lm - â– â– ' â– â– â– â– :;- ja*f mw mj mmame_mt___________m mm â– ^ l .â– -^^^ . j â– â– h wgi^^a t___?a^gg b^hi waaw kwus bvlai b^^^ib p^^ft^h ball 1 l * * ' > jar = *> - - p^r^li v â– ~ â– ~, w m]mmm : -" aÂ«lmi jj ?;, .. . . fjgf faff ( jt^aÂ«*.-Â«^ij--l-.^jjl p ., "^^..- gr,4 â– â€” . :.-.... .â€ž._ â– ... ... . :,... ..â€ž â– -â– ; â– .. ..__â– _.-â– â– Â»â– :â– :. â– Â»:, l ..... six â€ž ',.,." ~ foreign help issue . v recommendations submitted 1 to immigration board employ skilled efficient local personnel it lias b en and continues to be the desire and the hope of the business com munity that with the passag of time and the development of abilities by bermudians a greater and greater number of jobs in all categories will be fiilled by bermudians ii has been and will continue to be the desire of the business community to take every op portunity consistent with eco nomic realities to encourage the training of bermudians to fill increasingly responsible po sitions in the community fhe colony's three major business organizations â€” tho bermuda employers council the chamber of commerce end the hotel association yesterday moved iiitd the current controversy over the heavy infiltration ol foreign labour into bermuda with a memorandum yesterday stating their side of the memorandum was pre pared as long a^o as last august 11th and submitted to the boanl of immigration it was tht result of a meeting of the board which representa tives of the three bodies at tended in july bermuda's second li7e boy team were pictured above fter their enrollment at christ church devonshire on sunday seated are the leaders from left to right : miss wilma steede mr david pitt mrs helena brice leader in charge ; mr ray mond charles and mr cecil djowns leader of the 1st life boys at st paul's church paget enrolling the 24 boys was the rev murray gawne rector ef the church major difference between the boys team and scout groups is the emphasis placed on christian training â€” photo by ed kelly age of skills and recommends that a commission be appoint the issue ed to survey the labour situa adequately trained local tion with a view to providing people in all categories through an adequate pro gramme of training and faci lities for training this is viewed by the busi ness community as just plain common sense it is part and parcel of a long-range view looking toward the healthy growth and development of bermuda as a community british-american gallan^h of triol cites efforts founder's day tribute we feel that this memo randum should now be releas ed to the public,"mr john plowman president of the chamber of commerce told the press he said he was speaking for himself the hon w l tucker viee-p!resident of the employers council and the hon a d spurling president of the hotel assoea tion mr plowman did not know what action the board had taken on their recommen dations parliamentary group leaders named colony's 2,000 scouts and guides to wear uniforms to school feb 22 text of the memorandum follows : the changing picture dear sir bermuda like other de veloped areas of the world has changed radically over the past two decades as in other parts of the world the need increasingly is for generally highly trained and technically highly trained personnel to fill an increasing number of jobs in a number of areas in the production areas in the service areas in the trade areas and in government public attention to the heroism ot two or three per sons who helped rescue two irom the flaming cycle wreck age which took two lives on the main st david's island road last thursday night was called by mr c v burch in the house of assembly on monday this memorandum is jointly presented for " con sideration of the policy com mittee of the board of immi gration from the bermuda employers council the ber muda chamber of commerce and the bermuda hotel asso ciation the memorandum ia the outcome of a meeting of the board of immigration held july 8 1961 to which repre sentatives of the board and representatives of the employ ers council the chamber of commerce and the hotel as sociation were invited and at which a number of questions raised by the board were dis cussed at that time delegates to the second british-american parsiamen tary conference which opens in bermuda next wednesday will arrive here the day before the speaker of the house of assembly sir john cox re vealed on monday bermuda's 2,000 boy scouts and girl guides who tradition ally observe the birthday of their founder lord baden powell with thinking day ceremonies will give added impact to the occasion this year by wearing their uniforms to school cr work on february 22 this was announced today at a press conference called by mr john fountain island scout commissioner and mrs dudley butterfield girl guide commissioner they pointed out that the founder's birth day is a big day for scouts and guides the world over permission for the youths to wear their uniforms to school had been granted by the di rector of education mr d j williams by communicating with them in one way or another the memorandum takes notes of the changing pieture of bermuda the present short sir john said the british de legation will be led by lord hailsham while senator john j sparkman democrat of alabama heads the american group each delegation com prises six members speaking on the motion for adjournment he said that most persons were no doubt aware of the tragic accident that had oceured but he won dered if the proper authori ties had brought to their at tention the gallantrj r and fore sight of the persous who were responsible for saving two lives chief guide in mexico lord baden - powell was born in london february 22 1857 by co-incidence february 22 is also the date of his wife's birth lady olave ba den-powell is the world chief guide and according to mrs butterfield she is at present in mexico attending a world guide conference the hiring of people to fill the specific needs must pre suppose training of those peo pie to fill those needs it must presuppose qualifications it must presuppose an attitude of willingness on the part of those seeking jobs to qualify themselves to fill the jobs it must presuppose a willingness to accept responsibilities and a conscientiousness of attitude one cop equal to ten sergeants and two inspectors canada was expected at one point to send a delegation as it did for the conference last february but so far no continuation has come from ottawa a proposal by the commis sioner of police which will have the effect of sacrificing one constable provided for in the force so that funds saved from his salary could be used to allow the promotion of two sergeants to inspectors and ten constables to sergeants was approved by the house on monday based upon minutes of thj july 8th meeting the board stated that while it did not particularly want to restrict people coming in for employ ment . . . the board feels that the business community must take a more liberal attitude toward giving job opportuni ties to bermudians in order that the board would be able to cut down to some extent the employment of non-bermu dians it was also stated that the board felt that the busi ness community should not only provide more job oppor tunities for bermudians but also more opportunities for advancement and more oppor tunities for the coloured ber others making up the brit ish party are the earl of dun dee from the house of lords and house of commons mem bers the rt hon hugh gaitskell labour party lead he said he was referring to the efforts of mr daltou stovell jjr burnell jones and an american service couple mr and mrs james rubin chak who lived near the scene of the accident in addition district think ing day church parades will be held on february 25 ser vices will be held at st pe ter's church at 11 a.m for tha eastern district 4 p.m at st john's church for pembroke devonshire district 4 p.m at st mary's church for wÂ»r wick-paget the western dis trict service will be announced later lady gascoigne will at tend the service at st john's bermuda is represented at the conference by its interna tional commissioner dr mar jorie hallett who has the dis tinction of being a member of the western hemisphere sub committee of the world asso ciation of guides and scouts she left the colony last wed nesday for the conference and is due to return sunday next continued on page 2 speaker apologizes for late start continued on page 6 they risked their lives so to speak to save these young men mr burch declared adding i feel that deeds of this kind should not go un noticed members stamped their feet in approval of the assemdlyman's remarks mr e h barnes who did not vote against the plan re marked it seemed as if the colony is going to have a police force of all officers and no constables something mr s s toddings said was a chinese army members in charge of the matter contained in a mes sage from the governor was mr c vail zuill chairman of the civil service committee the com..iittee he said sup ported t h e commissioner's iew that the rearrangement of the for e would give more chances for promotion from the ranks completes tv production course the boy scout movement was founded in 1908 it now has a world-wide membership of nearly nine million which mr fountain said certainly the speaker of the house of assembly who never fails to start regular sessions of the house promptly at 2 p.m was forced to apologize to mem bers on monday for getting things underway a few min utes late traditionally scouts and guides are encouraged to think of others in the movement on founder's day the collision and resulting fire took the lives of mr arthur burrows of st george's and mr gwyn smith of bailey's bay surviving with serious injuries in hos mr wendell barry lyn tucker recently graduated from the rca television pro duction and operators course in new york continued on page 6 mudians reason for the late start he explained wan the fact the clock whidh 1 am usually guided by did not strike the sessions house clock seeming ly was registering the correct time but why it missed strik ing at 2 p.m has not been ex plained continued on page 6 they're stripped the board said that it was concerned with impressing on the business community the importance of training local people to fill these jobs which are at present being given to non-bermudians prior to his leaving for rca he worked oh the produc tion staff of zbm tv cadets too young for full police powers zz - __\ ww ' j^u .â€¢ t^aamm mamt â– ^^â„¢Â»'_ y a&^_g^wi . a_c *^ aa i .' '..{ jjf'^t^ms&^^dm^m . ama % a * * â– am little 8 to talk feb 26 but however the committee didnot go along with his re commendation that a new post for a supernumerary chief in spector tor training should be created the house supported the committee on the point and rejected the request a memorandum from commissioner g h robins noted that the present autho r i s e d establishment of all ranks in the police force is 274 in this memorandum the bermuda employers council the chamber of commerce and the hotel association wish to state their views on these matters i caught up in the proposed re-arrangement of the police force which the house of assembly approved on mon day was the police cadet force mr g h robins com missioner of police stated as follows about the cadets i consider that the cadets should be outside the estab lishment of the force and that a maximum establishment of 6 should be approved and these should be regarded as poten tial recruits to fill vacancies in the establishment bridgetown bar feb 12 â€” a coherence of the pre mier of barbados mr errol barrow atid tlte chief minis tcrs of the windward and lee ward islands will be convened in barbados opening on mon day february sfl the purpose is to establish a new federation consisting of barbados antigua dominica grenada st vincent st lu cia st kitts montserrat and possibly the turks and caicos islands and cayman islands speakers at tomorrows labour meeting the business community wants to hire the jfa^inwitn number of bermudians at present cadets are in eluded in the establishment of the force are given the same powers responsibilities and protection as trained con stables but because of their age and lack of training should never have these re sponsibilities there are at present 4 cadets but it may well be that once local recruiting and training gets under way there may for many parts of the year be no cadets while at others there may be as many an g this should be a float ing figure outside the estab lishment i request approval for this in principle if ap proved in principle i will then submit a properly con sidered scheme for the recruit ing and training of cadets to gether with the financial im plications first and foremost we should like to emphasize our desire to hire local people whenever possible the meet ing of july 8th seemed to re flect an attitude on the part of some members of the board that there was a basic prefer ence for imported help noth ing could be farther from the truth tomorrow the third in a series of labour meetings will take place at alexan drina hall under the chairmanship of mr al harris speakers will be lt colonel j c ast wood m.c.p chairman of the board of immigration and mr martin wilson president general of the bermuda in dustrial union the smaller the force he point i .- ed out the greater the danger a m i j ii f stagnation and boredom if there is little incentive to promotion to give the neces sary this announcement was made here yesterday after noon mr wendell b l tucker cadets should be regarded as a means of catching young men on leaving school imbu ing them with a sense of ser vice to the community and police work thus reducing the period of training which they will require when they reach the age of entry into the since completing his course he has rejoined the staff sir grantley adams fed eral prime minister left by plane sunday accompanied by federal m.p.s mr " gilmore rocheford and mr deightou ward to attend a special meeting of the west indian federal labour party in port of-spain for domestic and economic reasons there should always be possibilities for promotion open to the outstanding and efficient man at present i believe the propsect to be in adequate th commissioner m held mr tucker was educated in bermuda at ord road school and sandy's secondary school he is the youngest son of mr and mrs leroy s tucker tucklyn villa ord road paget west it is of course known to the board that the employ ment of staff from abroad is fraught with all types of dif ficulties and expense henca there is every inducement to growing discontent with the competition local labour is getting from imported help partioulanly in the hotel in dustry led to the start of the meetings by mr harris ! â€¢ force try pre-sifted purity flour today